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Cupid's Pastime,1/31,ill.Buckland Wright,1935

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letter CC of 31 copies on pale green paper and signed by the artist, copper-engraved full-page illustrations and head- and tail-pieces by John Buckland Wright, tissue guards, with a proof of one engraving signed and dated in pencil by Buckland Wright loosely inserted (lightly stained at corners from glue on verso where previously mounted), engraved bookplate for G.M van Wees by Buckland Wright and signed by him in pencil mounted on front pastedown, original buckram-backed JBW patterned-paper boards, t.e.g., others uncut, a little browned, [Reid A19], 8vo, privately printed by A.A.M.Stols of Maastricht for JBW Editions, 1935.

***The colophon states that this poem, originally printed in 1608, "is here reprinted as a private experiment in illustration and typography by the engraver of the plates, who offers no other excuse for this publication." The plates were printed by the artist himself..

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